Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may ...

Researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have observed the magnetic nucleus of an atom flipping ...

For the first time, the state of an atomic nucleus was switched with a laser. For decades, physicists have been looking for such a nuclear transition -- now it has been found. This opens up a new ...

UNSW engineers have made a significant advance in quantum computing: they created 'quantum entangled states'—where two ...

You've probably seen videos showing characters walking through walls like ghosts. Upon closer inspection, atoms consist of a ...

Scientists observed nuclear spin flips in a titanium atom lasting seconds, advancing quantum sensing and memory.

Physicists used a scanning tunneling microscope to observe electrons as they moved in sync with the nucleus of an atom of ...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has announced a new way to reliably make element 116, livermorium. The results, made by ...

A new study details how UNSW engineers created 'quantum entangled states' between two phosphorus atoms in silicon.

When most of us picture an atom, we think about a small nucleus made of protons and neutrons orbited by one or more electrons. We view these electrons as point-like while rapidly orbiting the nucleus.

An atom is so small that a single drop of water contains more than a billion atoms. Although tiny, atoms are mostly empty space. The simplified model of the atom is that of a cloud of negative ...